This idea of Shavuot is not only just the idea of harvest,
and it is harvest, absolutely, and we're in the season of harvest.
We're in a season where the outpouring is begun.
It's begun.
But it's also a season of...
It's a holiday of renewing the covenant.
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You know, most of the church, in fact, a huge portion of the church knows absolutely
nothing about Pentecost.
Huge portion of the church knows zero.
They don't even read Acts chapter two.
I mean, there's a whole lot of churches don't even read Acts chapter two.
The liturgical churches, believe it or not, they actually celebrate Pentecost, but they
call it the birthday of the church.
They think that's what it's all about.
And they are clueless that it is an event that happened almost 2,000 years ago that
has a root that goes way down deep and probably deeper than any of us know.
Now, I think most of the people in this room and probably the people that are watching
are a bit better educated than that.
And we know that Pentecost that was celebrated a few weeks ago on the liturgical calendar,
the church calendar, they determine when...
Don't even like to use the term.
Let's call it Resurrection Day.
Okay, we won't use that other term.
They determine when to celebrate Resurrection Day based on the equinox and how many...
Like the first new moon after the...
I don't remember just how that works, but it's a totally different calendar.
And then we have what you would call the current rabbinical calendar that has been
determined mathematically, which may or may not be exactly accurate from God's point of view either.
And then there's an Essen calendar.
The Essenes counted things differently and the Sadducees counted things differently
and the Karaites count things differently and we know this is the season.
And you know what? Our Father knows exactly what everybody thinks and he's actually willing
to meet us wherever we are.
So we're not going to fuss over, well, it's today or it was...
You know, on the Essen calendar, I think this is really interesting.
You know who the Essenes were, the ones that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls
that kind of disappeared into history?
They probably became believers in Yeshua. Probably.
All these different calendars, our Father knows what they all are.
And he's willing to meet us wherever we are.
So the Essen calendar, I started to say that the Essen calendar places
Shavuot on the 15th and 16th, the evening of the 15th.
So we are going through the 14th, okay?
So we're in this little bookends time for our convention.
I just think that's marvelous.
That, oh, this is so exciting, you know?
There are so many different aspects of Shavuot and Claren covered some of it already.
And I bless him because there's so much to cover.
There's no stealing of anybody's thunder because there's so much thunder, okay?
So there's so much thunder.
And I'm going to say this because this is what some folks believe
that during the time of the temple, okay, the time of the temple,
it was always celebrated just as like a harvest festival.
So at Passover, they killed the Passover and whether it was
the second day of the Passover or whether it was the day following the Shabbat,
that's the, you know, the weekly Shabbat,
could be either one, could be both, could be one or the other.
That was the feast of first fruits of the barley harvest.
So on that day, the priest would go out into the barley fields
and they would look for the barley harvest.
They would go into the barley fields and they would look for
the heads of the barley that were dipping down low.
The first ripe ones, the first ripe grains.
When a head of grain is ripe, it has become so heavy that its little head dips down low.
And beloved, I want to just make a little side comment here that as we grow in God, you know,
we shoot up, we put our roots down and we shoot up and we're up there.
Yay, God, look at me, I'm saved.
And sooner or later we learn that there's something about bowing.
There's something about going low.
There's something about humility.
There's something about submit yourselves therefore to God before you resist the devil
or he'll never flee.
You understand?
If you don't learn to bow, you can resist the devil all day long and he's going to keep pestering you.
But when you learn to submit yourself to our Father, submit yourself to, when I submit myself
and I stomp on my flesh and I say I'm going to serve God, I'm going to do it his way,
I'm not going to try and do it my way, that becomes first fruits.
That becomes ripened grain.
And it takes some folks to make that decision even when everybody else is up there,
here I am, here I am, here I am, pick me, pick me.
No, the priest is out there looking for the ones that are bowed down.
So the priest goes around and he finds those ones that are bowed down and he takes one.
And he takes one.
And he takes one over here and no, they're all standing up over there.
And he finds another one way over there and he goes through the field until he finds
enough of those that are bowed over.
And he gathers them up to make a sheaf to wave before the Lord.
Now I'm still talking about in Passover, okay?
And that is called the Omer.
That's the sheaf.
That's the way to make a sheaf.
That's the wave offering.
And until the wave offering is made, you can't eat of the new harvest.
You have to wait for that to be done, okay?
Jesus was resurrected on the feast of first fruits, okay?
He was the original one to show us how to bow down.
Not my will, but thine be done.
And then they were told to count seven weeks.
Seven times seven.
Now in Hebrew, the word for week is Shavua, okay?
Once you get past Shabbat, when the sun goes down on Shabbat, you wish everyone Shavua Tov.
Have a good week.
Have a good week. So the plural of Shavua is Shavuot.
Means weeks.
So that's why it's called Shavuot because we're counting down seven weeks, okay?
Seven times seven is 49.
And then on the 50th day is Shavuot or Pentecost.
They call it Pentecost from Greek because Penta means 50.
So it's the 50th day, okay?
Quick little education about that.
Now, there's another interesting word that is also pronounced Shavuot.
And that is the plural of the word oath.
If you think back, maybe you remember this story back in the book of Genesis, where Abraham
is living in the region of the Philistines.
They were a little further inland at that time.
And the king of the Philistines, Abimelek, in Genesis 21 comes to Abraham
and it says in verse 22 of Genesis 21,
it came to pass at that time that Abimelek and Fekal, the chief captain of his host,
spoke unto Abraham saying, God is with you in all that you do.
Now therefore swear unto me, swear unto me here by God,
that you will not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor my son's son,
but according to the kindness that I've done unto you,
you shall do unto me and to the land wherein you've soldered.
Now that word swear is the word Shavuot.
It comes from the word Shavuot.
It's not exactly that.
I'm not ready to conjugate verbs.
I'm a Hebrew scholar wannabe, okay?
I'm not a Hebrew scholar.
I'm about a first or second grader, okay?
I haven't even learned what it means to conjugate verbs yet.
You remember in second grade you didn't know a thing about conjugating verbs, okay?
And maybe you still don't.
I'm clueless about conjugating verbs in Hebrew.
I think probably we could learn something from Clearen.
What?
Tishva, okay, thank you.
Tishva.
There's the word.
So, but it comes from the word Shavuot which is related to the word seven, which is covenant.
And how do you pronounce seven?
Shaiva, okay.
Shaiva comes from Shavuot.
Shavuot comes from Shaiva.
Not sure.
Shavuot comes from Shaiva.
It's all together, okay?
We'll just put it all in one pot.
It means seven, okay?
So swear seven to me, okay?
Seven to me.
Seven to me that you will deal well with me, with my sons and so on.
And then in verse 27, Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech and both of them made a covenant.
And Abraham, verse 28, Abraham set seven eulams of the flock by themselves and Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What do you mean by these seven eulams which you set by themselves?
And he said, For these seven eulams you shall take of my hand that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well.
This is my well.
And therefore he called the place Be'er Sheva, okay?
Be'er means a well and Sheva means seven, okay?
But it also means that they swore a covenant together.
They made an oath.
They swore an oath to each other.
So seven also means to swear a covenant, okay?
We're going somewhere with this.
Remember that Shavuot is seven times seven, okay?
There's something about the number seven.
Have you noticed in scripture that there's something about the number seven?
Have you noticed in scripture that there's seven spirits of God in front of the throat of God?
Have you noticed that there's a picture right there of the seven branched candlestick?
Okay, there's something about seven that's weighty.
There's something about seven because there's a completion, you know?
You come to the end of the week and you don't go on to the, you know, in Hebrew,
you don't have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
You have first day, second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day, sixth day, Shabbat.
And then you start over with first day again, okay?
First day, second day.
So it's all about the idea of seven having something of completion,
something of perfection, something of, it's complete.
And you're going to start a cycle all over again.
Then you're going to start a cycle all over again.
Then you're going to start a cycle all over again until you come seven complete sevens.
And then you celebrate this harvest.
So on the feast of first fruits during Passover, they brought the first sheaf of the barley.
And then they began the harvesting of the barley, but you got to wait until it's ripe enough.
And then you cut it down and you bind the sheafs together and you stand them in the field
so that they continue to ripen.
So that everything gets dried completely so that it will keep.
You know, you don't want it to be moist or it'll get mildewy.
Lich.
Doesn't taste good.
Isn't good for you.
So it has to sit in the sun.
The harvest has to bake a little.
And then they get through the barley harvest and at the end of those seven weeks,
guess what?
The wheat has a few little heads that are bending low.
And they go out and they get a sheaf of the heads of the wheat
and they wave them before the low.
And they get the wheat and they wave them before the Lord.
Okay?
So that's a little picture of the harvest aspect of this.
And then the whole wheat harvest starts.
As Clarence was saying earlier, that you're going to go through the wheat harvest.
You get through the wheat harvest and there's going to be, I don't know the order,
but there's going to be olives and there's going to be pomegranates and there's going to be grapes
and there's going to be dates and all of these other things that grow in Israel.
Okay?
And those are going to be presented in Sukkot, the feast of tabernacles.
But there's something very, very, very special about Shavuot
that has to do with the oath.
With an oath.
With oaths.
It's plural.
Okay?
Shavuot means it's the plural for weeks and it's the plural for oaths.
So we're told that up until the temple was destroyed,
that they were pretty much focusing on the harvest aspect.
Right?
You're going to bring your sheaves.
You're going to celebrate the harvest.
Yay!
Thank you, God, for the wonderful harvest.
We'll give you the first fruits.
We'll give you the best.
Because the first, the first ripe is going to represent the best.
Because it has ripened first.
Obviously, if you could choose which seed you want to take to plant next time,
you would want to take what ripens first.
You want to have the first harvest.
You want your field to come right before everybody else's field.
It'll bring more money in the shops.
Right?
But we bring our first fruits to God.
We bring our first fruits to Him and give Him what He wants.
We give Him what is due Him because He gave it to us.
There wouldn't be any harvest if it weren't for Him.
Remember, Jacob and his sons all went down into Egypt because the harvests were failing.
The drought had come.
It's God that gives us a good harvest.
So think in terms of harvest when we're talking about this time that we're living in.
But it's also a connection to what happened in the wilderness
when the children of Israel had escaped from Egypt.
And they met at Mount Sinai.
And in Exodus chapter 19, it talks about in verse 1, it says,
in the third month, okay, the first month is the month called Aviv.
Means spring.
And I think there's another meaning for it too.
Well, Nisan is the Babylonian name.
Aviv is another name.
There's more than one name for it.
Anyway, it's also called the first month.
Just like the first day, second day, first month, second month, third month.
In the third month, the third month is when this Shavuot takes place.
So looking in chapter 19, it says, in the third month, it doesn't say what day,
when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt,
the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai,
for they were departed from Rephidim, where they came to the desert of Sinai
and had pitched in the wilderness and Israel camped before the mount.
Moses went up unto God and God, the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying,
thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, tell the children of Israel,
you've seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagle's wings
and brought you unto myself.
Myself. Hello.
Have we gathered here today, tonight, to come unto him?
Are we not gathering together unto him?
Mount Sinai, think Mount Sinai.
Hallelujah.
Now, now, therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,
then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people,
for all the earth is mine, and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.
And we go on from there.
And he tells the people to get themselves ready for the third day.
And, you know, wash and leave your wives alone.
And then it says in verse 16, it came to pass on the third day in the morning.
In the morning.
Now, remember, day begins with night.
When the sun goes down, that's the beginning of the day.
So Shavuot has begun.
What happened in Acts chapter two?
It was in the morning, right?
And it was in the morning in Exodus 19,
the third day in the morning, there were thunders and lightnings
and a thick cloud on the mountain, a voice of the trumpet exceeding loud,
so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God.
Here we are.
And they stood at the nether part of the mount and Mount Sinai.
I love this.
I'm going to read a straight King James.
And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke.
Don't you just love that?
That's just so descriptive.
It was all together on a smoke because Jehovah descended upon it in fire.
And the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace,
and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder,
Moses spake and God answered him by a voice.
And the Lord Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai on the top of the mount,
and the Lord called Moses up into the top of the mount.
Moses went up and he goes on and tells them, you know,
go back down and tell everybody, tell nobody to touch the mountain,
or they'll get fried.
Those are my words.
And then he says, verse 24, you shall come up, you and Aaron with you.
And so Moses went down and chapter 20.
I read this for years and didn't get it, but I hope you've already gotten it.
But I'll point it out in case you didn't.
God spoke all these words.
God spoke.
The people are gathered around the mountain and God is speaking to them.
Everybody, not just Moses.
Everybody hears what God Himself is saying.
We have convened here for the purpose of hearing from God.
We haven't just come because we're good friends.
We haven't just come because it's fun.
We haven't just come because it's good fellowship.
We have come to meet with God.
So he goes through the Ten Commandments, and I'm not going to take time to read them,
but I'm just telling you, he said it himself and they all heard the voice of God.
And they thought they were going to die.
They were just sure they were going to die and they said, Moses, you talk to him.
We'll do whatever he says.
Just don't make us listen to him anymore.
They couldn't handle it.
Let us not be that.
Let us not be that. Let us be those that are willing to humble ourselves and listen
to what the Lord has to say.
And then he goes on giving some more instructions.
And then he says in chapter 23, verse 14, three times,
you shall keep a feast unto me in the year.
You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread.
Eat unleavened bread seven days as I commanded you in the time appointed of the month of Eve.
For in it you came out from Egypt and none shall appear before me empty.
And the feast of harvest.
Okay, so that he introduces Shavuot as a feast of harvest.
Okay, get this harvest picture because that's where we're going.
That's where we're going is the harvest.
And then he goes on and mentions the feast of Sukkot, the feast of tabernacles.
And so then he talks about it in Leviticus.
He mentions again the three feasts.
And I'm just going to point out verse 16, Leviticus 23, 16.
Even unto the day after the seventh Sabbath, you shall number 50 days and you shall offer a new
meat offering unto the Lord. So this is this is the new harvest of the wheat
that they're going to offer. Only this time they're told to bake it into bread.
They're not going to wave a sheaf this time. They're going to bake some bread.
Are we ready for some bread? Will you be broken like bread to feed the hungry?
Like bread to feed the hungry? Are you ready? Are you ready for what God is going to do next?
And verse 18, you shall offer with the bread seven lambs. Hmm seven. Wonder why seven.
There's a book that was written about in the second century before Jesus came called the book
of Jubilees. I haven't read it, but I've read up on it a little bit. And in it, it talks about
the various Jubilees and it's pretty extensive from what I gather. I didn't have time to get
one in my hand and really get into it, but it talks about the celebration of Shavuot
and how Shavuot was celebrated over and over and over again as a reenactment of Mount Sinai.
And if you think about, there was something that the children of Israel said to Moses,
whatever he says we will do. Whatever he says we will do. And in chapter 24, it says in verse three,
all the words which Yehovah has said we will do. And Moses wrote all the words of Yehovah and rose
up early in the morning. This is before God wrote them on the tablets. Before he wrote them on the
tablets, Moses wrote them down. And he rose up early in the morning, built an altar under the hill,
12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel, and he sent young men of the children of Israel
which offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.
And Moses took half of the blood and he put it in basins and half of the blood he sprinkled on the
altar and he took the book of the covenant. So there was a book of the covenant before the
covenant was written in stone. Okay? We miss it sometimes because Charlton Heston didn't do it in
the movie. They left out some things, you know? Hollywood takes its liberties. Yes, Cecil B. DeMille
took liberties. And Moses took half of the blood, put it in basins and half of the blood he sprinkled
on the altar and he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people and they
said all that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. And he read it and he put it in the
audience of the people and he said we will do and be obedient. And Moses took the blood and sprinkled
it on the people and said behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you
concerning these words. And that's when Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, the 70 elders of Israel
went up into the mount a little ways I think and they saw the God of Israel and there was under his
as it were the body of heaven in his clearness and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he
laid not his hand also they saw God and did eat and drink and they didn't die. Everybody thought
they would die because he's awesome and it's fearful to get deep into his presence. But are
we willing to go there? Are we willing to die to self in order to go there? So this idea of Shavuot
is not only just the idea of harvest and it is harvest absolutely and we're in the season of
harvest. We're in a season where the outpouring is begun. It's begun but it's also a season of
it's a holiday of renewing the covenant. Now when the children of Israel came into the promised land
in the book of Joshua they got into the promised land set up their camp at Gilgal
and made themselves extremely vulnerable because they circumcised all the men.
Now you would think that that's about the stupidest thing that you could do
as soon as you're getting into a position where you're about to go to war and you make everybody
weak. All the warriors were weakened but I have a theory about that. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
were all circumcised in that land. The children of Israel in Egypt were all circumcised, the men
or the boys, the baby boy babies were all circumcised until they left Egypt and for those 40
years they were not circumcised. Why? I think it's because God wanted to make a flesh covenant with
them in the land because the covenant of circumcision had to do with I'm promising you and your
descendants this land. So it was a blood covenant for them to enter into the promised land and
shed their own blood in agreement with God's covenant for the land. It's a renewing of the
covenant. Now they did that at the feast, the feast of Passover. They celebrated the Passover.
They crossed into the land and they set up a monument at Gilgal and then they did the
circumcision and then they celebrated Passover in their weakness. Remember they had had to shed blood,
the blood of the lamb for the Passover in Egypt and I think there's some kind of a connection to
the shedding of their own blood. I don't have a real clear grip on it but I feel like there's some
kind of a connection and once they celebrated the Passover then they were able to eat of the
corn of the land, the stuff that they found and the manna stopped. So then they after they all got
well, got their strength back, then came Jericho. They had this wonderful success in Jericho and
then they had all the stuff that happened with the battles at Ai. The first one went badly and
then they had to deal with Achan's sin and deal with him and then they went on. After Ai,
they went to Shechem and at Shechem, Shechem was the first place where Abraham had built an altar
and called on the name of Yehovah right there in that spot where the Canaanites had lived at one
time and then years later Jacob and his sons came and there was a slaughter of the men at Shechem
because they had one of them had raped their sister and if you don't know those stories go
read your Bible. I'm not going to take time for that one but Moses had told him that he was going
but Moses had told Joshua when you get there go to Shechem because that's where it all started
and you go there and you put some of your tribes over here on the Mount of Blessing, Mount Gerizim
and you put some of your tribes over here on the Mount of Cursing and you and you recite
the blessings and the cursings and you go build an altar on the Mount of Cursing.
You don't need an altar on the on the Mount of Blessing. You need an altar on the Mount of
Cursing. You need an altar. You need a place where you can go and get your sins forgiven.
This is the place where you get your sins forgiven and that was the place where they
plastered a wall and wrote the rules. They wrote the Ten Commandments for all to see
and you know archaeologists have found that altar on Mount Ebal. It's there on the Mount of Cursing
but they reenacted and there's nothing that gives me the the timing on this but I just have a feeling
that maybe it took them about seven weeks to deal with Jericho and Ai and I'm just thinking maybe
somehow that the timing of what they did at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal aligned with this Shavuot,
this rehearsing of the promises, this rehearsing of the oath. I will follow God
I will, I will, I will, I will. It's my oath. I am connecting myself to the covenant
and the covenant includes the promised land and the promised land is where the harvest is.
You're going to plant the harvest. You're going to plant your fields in the promised land
and that's where the harvest comes out of the promise. It's out of the promise. It's out of what
God swore he would do. God swore it. God swore it. God swore to the children of Israel. He swore to
Abraham. He swore to Isaac. He swore to Jacob. This is my word. I'm giving you this land. Our job is
to say yes I will do what you say to do. Our side of the covenant is okay here's the rules. I'm going
to live by them. So that's what they did and I really believe it happened in the third month. I
don't have any I don't have anything to prove it but I think it did and then you have the story of
Asa one of the kings of of Israel and he rose up to do what was right and bring reforms and deal
with the stuff and in chapter 15 of second chronicles verse 10 so they gathered themselves
together Jerusalem in the third month in the 15th year of the reign of Asa and they offered unto the
Lord at the same time the spoil which they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. What is it about
seven? What is it about seven in the third month? Okay very interesting. It's very interesting
it's very interesting and they entered into a covenant they came back to do it again to swear
their allegiance to the Lord. They entered into a covenant to seek the God of their fathers with all
their heart and with all their soul and that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel
would be put to death whether small or great whether man or woman and they swear into the
Lord and the word swear there in Hebrew comes from the root Shavah which is related to seven.
Shavah they swore into the Lord with a loud voice and was shouting with trumpets with
cornets or shofars and all Judah rejoiced at the Shavuah at the oath for they had sworn
Shavuah with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them and
the Lord gave them rest round about. Fast forward to Acts chapter 2. We won't go through every seven
in the Old Testament. So we know that Jesus went up into heaven on the 40th day after the resurrection
and the 50th day was the Pentecost right. So there were 10 days before Pentecost when Jesus went up
he told the disciples stay in Jerusalem. Well you know you would just walk back to Galilee
and have to turn around and come back you might as well stay. Don't go home just stay stay in
Jerusalem wait on the Lord until you be endued with power from on high. Stay put stay put. Well
they were fishermen there was no fishing going on there it's pretty dry in Jerusalem. Okay so
they what what else could they do they they prayed and they hung out and they probably went to the
temple a lot and they went to this upper room and they met together and they chose Matthias and so
on to take Judas's place. So chapter 2 of Acts when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were
all with one accord in one place. It does not say that they were in the upper room. I hate to break
your heart shatter that paradigm. They were probably let me tell you this. Currently today
in Jerusalem if you are there for the feast of Shavuot the people are in their synagogues all
night long praying and reading scripture all night long and at the crack of dawn they are headed for
the western wall which is the only part of the temple mount that they can get to at that time.
And it's it's the retaining wall of the temple mount. So today that's what they do. I can't
guarantee that that's what they did then but I'm suspicious that maybe that they that that's what
they were doing then too is because how else would you be all in one place in one accord.
You know it takes praying together to get you in one accord. So
it takes praying together to get you in one accord. So they would have probably gone to
the temple mount to watch and participate in what was going on in this feast of Shavuot
remembering what happened on Mount Sinai and bringing the first fruits the breads and so on.
So they were very very likely to be on the temple mount at the time. They were with one
accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind
and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them clove and
tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them. Remember that there was fire on the top of
the mountain. It was fire the fire of the presence of God and it came down on them while they were
waiting on him and it filled all the house where they were sitting. So when when you're among
Jewish people when you say the house they think the temple. Okay so it filled the whole house where
they were sitting and there appeared unto them clove and tongues like double like as of the Old
Testament to New Testament together. Okay and it it came upon this sat upon each of them and they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them
utterance. And here's all these Jews dwelling at Jerusalem from all these different places. They
they heard the noise they came running and they could hear everyone speaking in their own language
and they were all amazed and marveled saying aren't these guys Galileans? What?
They're speaking our languages. They were they were hearing in their own tongue. Now it could be
that they were speaking on all those different tongues but it could also be that they were saying
Shandai and all those other kinds of words that we that we hear and and uh and they were hearing
in their own language. Dr. Billy Brim has this going on all the time in her ministry where she
will speak in tongues and it sounds just like tongues to us and brother Max hears it in Arabic
and he writes it down and he reads it back and he he'll he'll hear phrases and he'll hear scripture
references and phrases and scripture and he writes down all of these things and he reads it back
and the phrase that he says fits with the the scripture. It is absolutely supernatural.
That's what the Holy Spirit does. Supernatural stuff.
So it could be that that's what happened on all these different places. Parthians and Medes,
Elamites dwellers at Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt,
parts of Libya, Batsirene, strangers of Rome, Cretan Arabians, all of these different people
from all over the world were hearing the wonderful works of God and they were amazed.
Some said they were new, drunk with new wine but Peter stood up and said these are not drunk as you
suppose. It's only nine o'clock in the morning and then he goes on to talk about you men of Judea.
Listen, listen. This is that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. It shall come to pass in the
last day saith God I will pour out of my spirit on all flesh and in the Greek it says I will pour
out of the spirit of me. To me that's just stronger. Somehow I will pour out of the spirit of me
on all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions,
your old men shall dream dreams on my servants and on my handmaidens I'll pour it on in those
days of my spirit and they shall prophesy and it goes on to talk about the wonders and heaven above
blood and fire and vapor smoke etc. This is that. Jesus was raised from the dead on the feast of
first fruits. He was the first fruits of many brethren. Okay? We're part of the harvest
that he's the first fruit of. This feast of Shavuot is a first fruits feast also. Peter said
this is that that was spoken of by the prophet Joel. There were people from all over the known
civilized world that were there and got it and took it home. This is that but it was a first fruit.
It wasn't really on all flesh it was on individuals from all of those nations.
All of those nations. So guess what? There's yet an outpouring on all flesh
and we're at the brink of it. But this is a feast of taking the oath. I'm gonna follow you.
I'm gonna follow you Lord to the nations wherever you lead.
Whatever you say I will do. I want to be like Jesus and do what I see you doing and say what I
hear you saying. I want to follow the example of the first fruits from the dead.
I want to do it Lord. I want to make my oath to you. I want to recommit my life to you
to do what you have for me to do. I want to be a first fruit in this Shavuot
that will be a part of the harvest on all flesh. Why do you think God gave us this new name global
outpouring? It's because of the outpouring that he's going to do on all flesh. So I just want to
challenge you. Claren would you just come to the keyboard and Nancy if you want to come to the harp.
I want to issue a challenge tonight as we conclude that it's time for us to say yes once again. It's
time for us to say yes once again. It's time for us you know these things are cyclic.
The feasts are cyclic just like the week is cyclic just like the day is cyclic. It comes around
and it comes around and it comes around and maybe we've missed it a few times around.
And it's time to come around to this place of rededication
where we're saying yes to the fire. We're saying yes to the God who Jesus had just
just instituted the new covenant on the night in which he was betrayed.
And that new covenant refers to Jeremiah 31.
Jeremiah 31 starting with verse 31 through 34.
This is the covenant. Behold the days come says the Lord that I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them out by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my
covenant they broke although I was a husband to them says the Lord but this shall be the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will
put my laws in their inward parts and write it in their hearts.
Cecil B. DeMille did a good job with with the the fiery finger of God coming down and writing in
those tables of stone. But I don't think any of you have ever seen the fire that was
on the table of stone. I don't think anyone has really portrayed it well to show how that
that fire that came and sat on each one of them began to write on the fleshy tables of their hearts
to write the word of God to change us. Come on walking with the Holy Spirit makes it so
the law because it's the law the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that sets us free from the law
of sin and death. I'll put my laws in their inward parts and write it in their hearts
and will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall teach no more every man
his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me they shall
all know me they shall all know me they shall all know me they shall all know me they shall all know
me they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them says the Lord for I will
forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. This is the new covenant
that started on the night of Pentecost on the night of Passover
and completed
on the day of Shavuot.
Are you ready to say yes to the Lord? If you want to come and spend some time at the altar here you
can pray kneel here you can pray in your chair just make make a new fresh covenant with the Lord.
Make a new fresh covenant with the Lord. Make a fresh covenant with him. You that are watching
online make a fresh covenant with the Lord wherever you are even if you're watching it later in the
archives make a fresh covenant with the Lord say yes yes yes I will do what you tell me yes I will
say yes yes yes I will go out into those harvest fields and I will bring in the harvest and I will
harvest and I will harvest and I will harvest over the next months and then we will dwell together
and secote that feast of tabernacles we will live with you as we bring you the harvest Lord.
I want to be part of the harvesters make me part of your harvest field the harvesters Lord
take me into your fields
say yes to God tonight say yes to God
and renew your covenant whatever covenant you have with him renew it fresh tonight
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